Passage: England pardons homosexuals
2,007 views · Published 23 October 2016 · 1:37 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: CBS Sunday Morning · 2016 · News & Politics
It happened this past week: the righting of a long-standing wrong in Britain, where the government announced it was granting posthumous pardons to roughly 50,000 men convicted of homosexual offenses in years past. The policy shift is informally referred to as Turing's Law, after Alan Turing, the math genius who helped break the Germans' Enigma Code during World War II, only to apparently commit suicide in 1954 after a conviction. Jane Pauley reports.
